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...course, any new Harvard House will serve as a microcosm for a new, pioneering society, and interested sociologists may wish to observe the leadership patterns among those who decide to cast light into darkness. Any such House must be fit to inaugurate the bold new concept of the Behavioral Barogue...
...military commander for the Communists, must explain his love, excuse his motivation, justify his life, and shoot himself in ten pages. These two men offered Zhivago a serious intellectual challenge--service out of love, and service out of duty. But Zhivago fails to come to terms with either concept, and Pasternak abets...
...economy of his sprawling nation of 85.5 million people. In 1957 he proposed that Indonesia be purged of its innumerable troubles through "guided democracy," a procedure that he expounded repeatedly without ever quite explaining. Last week, unable to have his way, Sukarno was abandoning guided democracy for a new concept which, instead of "burying" the rival political parties, would only be intended to "simplify" them...
...essence, Mies's concept goes back to the Japanese house, in which anonymous space can serve as living room, dining room or bedroom, depending on what furniture is brought forth. In the same way, Mies's museum area can be divided by partitions to take on the character of whatever is displayed within...
...concept of public responsibility is not a particularly clear or easily formulated one. It embodies the realization that educated men can and should take prominent parts in the affairs of their society, as lawyers, politicians, ministers, businessmen and journalists, no less than as educators. An undergraduate training which fails to value these professional capacities or subordinates them to an obsession with producing teachers is not a training aimed at meeting the broadest demands of the community...